Buying a better ant trap would have been a frugal #win

12:11 PM,
Jul. 3, 2014

Written by

Abbey Roy
CentralOhio.com

I received a jovial notification on Twitter this past week from a former Central Ohioan who wanted to remind me of the two-year anniversary of the derecho. You know, that big storm that knocked out our power for a week or so back in 2012.

Earlier this spring, I had planned to do an electricity-free day with the girls to commemorate that unfortunate event, wherein we - with the exception of Littlest Roy, who at that point was probably the size of a pea - lived for 10 days in a hot house that also smelled because of a nonfunctioning garbage disposal and spoiling refrigerator contents. We mooched off of ...